Up d ates
Dr Nino Japaridze DPhil Politics 2012 Dr Japaridze joined Ipsos this Spring as Vice President at Ipsos Public Relations in Washington DC. At Ipsos she is building the media and communications impact practice within the social research space, which was the subject of her dissertation at Oxford University. Dr La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul (MPhil and DPhil Economics, 2008) and Dr Christoph Lakner (DPhil Economics, 2010) Fa h Jirasaveta kul and Christoph Lakner married on 20 August 2016 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. They had a wonderful day with many friends from their time in Oxford, including several Antonians. They celebrated their engagement ceremony in Thailand earlier in August. They now live in Washington, DC, working for international organisations.
Dr Jin Park DPhil Politics, 1990 Dr Park has been made a ‘Distinguished Friend of Oxford’ in a 2016 ceremony. This award recognises exceptional voluntary contributions by alumni for the benefit of the University community. Dr Park has long acted as the University’s facilitator and liaison officer in Korea.
Sabrina Karim MSc in Forced Migration 2007 Ms Karim will be starting a tenure track job as an assistant professor in Government at Cornell University in the fall of 2017 and has been made a Dartmouth Fellow in US Foreign Policy and International Security during 2016-2017 at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Hanover, New Hampshire.
David Passarelli DPhil Education Studies, 2015 is currently Chief of Staff to the UN UnderSecretary-General and Rector of the United Nations University, Dr David M. Malone. From 1 October 2016, he will assume the position of Executive Officer in the organisation (UNU).
Professor Robert Rotberg DPhil Political Science, 1960 Professor Rotberg has been appointed Fulbright Distinguished Professor International Relations, University of Sao Paulo, 2016-2017.
John McKendrick QC MSc Latin American Studies, 2003 Her Majesty the Queen appointed Mr McKendrick Queen’s Counsel this year at the age of 39 and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has appointed him to be Attorney General in the Caribbean island of Anguilla from September 2016. He spoke at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on his new work Daren: A Journey in Seach of an Empire (Birlinn, 2016) about Scottish attempts to found a colony in 17th century Panama.
Professor Dr Ayami Nakatani DPhil Social Anthropology, 1996 Dr Ayami Nakatani has been appointed Vice President of Okayama University, in charge of the Discovery Program for Global Learners at Okayama University, Japan.
Dr Andreas Papatheodorou DPhil Economics, 2000 Dr Papatheodoru has been made Professor in Industrial and Spatial Economics with Emphasis on Tourism at the University of the Aegean. He has also been appointed as Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Dr A lfredo Eduardo T h o r n e Ve t t e r ( D P h i l Economics, 1986) has been appointed as the Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru. Dr Thorne Vetter wa s a s sociated w it h t he Latin American Centre. He previously worked for the World Ba nk, JP Morga n Chase Bank and Scudder Kemper among others. ©PCM Peru
Dr Tanya Zaharchenko MSc Russian and Eastern European Studies, 2006 Tanya Zaharchenko received her PhD in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge in 2014. She was the 2015 Einstein Fellow in Germany, and is now based in Norway as a Research Fellow at the University of Oslo. 25